Good question; we don't seem to know very much about it, other than that it seems to be helping first nations develop rules of their own. But we also are worried that instead of a comprehensive plan that would develop a real strategy for dealing with violence against women, and the menu of choices that women should have....
What would happen to the Métis woman in the situation you described? Do you think she would feel safe there, in that community that was not her home community? Would she not need to have the ability to somehow be with family?
There have to be other solutions than a matrimonial real property law, right?